Last week, my son announced at the dinner table that his school had turned off the lights for a time to “celebrate” Earth Day. To my mind, it seemed more of a lesson in why we need electricity to power our modern civilization, yet the kids were apparently allowed to spend the time playing computer games, which makes the overall point of the exercise hard to decipher.
Minister Harjit Sajjan says he wasn’t checking his e-mail during the 2021 fall of Afghanistan and it’s possible his inbox includes correspondence that a senator’s office was distributing Canadian government travel documents but he didn’t authorize the practice.
Mr. Sajjan told the House of Commons immigration committee Wednesday evening that he also wasn’t aware that his then chief of staff, George Young, had sent templates of the federal documents to Senator Marilou McPhedran’s office, or that the senator then helped distribute them to hundreds of Afghans trying to escape the brutal Taliban regime.
When governments take private property, such takings are usually done to carry out some larger public project — like building roads and other infrastructure. Unlike property seizures of the past, the Trudeau Liberals’ gun confiscation (“buyback”) isn’t supporting some larger project for the benefit of the public. It’s a confiscation of private property for the sake of fulfilling a platform point.
Feds acknowledge $595M media bailout didn’t work; @CdnHeritage exec @ORipley testifies “we continued to see a decline in news” despite subsidies. https://t.co/q5KzRT1j0R #cdnmedia #cdnpoli @pablorodriguez pic.twitter.com/wH4ZaWVJj4
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) April 27, 2023
Tsk Tsk … CBC getting political
DOCUMENTS: #CBC releases indignant letter in which @PresidentCBCRC accuses @PierrePoilievre of falsehoods & ulterior motives, says #CBC cuts have "implications" for Canada. https://t.co/0S4DrS0cv3 #cdnpoli @ShaunPoulter #cdnfoi pic.twitter.com/MHaoJQR9Fm
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) April 27, 2023
Canadian officials were warned three weeks ago that Sudan was sliding towards a major civil conflict, raising questions about the Liberal government’s statements that the situation took the world by “surprise” amid concerns over the pace of evacuation efforts, multiple sources tell Global News.
While Canadian Armed Forces members and assets are already in the region, as of Wednesday they had yet to begin military evacuations for diplomatic personnel and Canadian nationals. The 180 Canadians that have been evacuated as of Wednesday have done so on aircraft operated by Canada’s allies.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on April 20—a celebratory day ritualized by cannabis users known as 4/20—that he has successfully kept cannabis out of kids’ hands by legalizing the drug.
The main studies on youth cannabis use, however, “are not very conclusive,” says Chantal Vallerand, executive director of Drug Free Kids Canada.
According to Statistics Canada, Canada’s population grew by 1,050,110 people in 2022. International migration accounted for 95.9 per cent of this growth.
Some have questioned whether Canada’s immigration policy is at odds with its efforts to address the housing crisis. Paul Kershaw of UBC has pointed out that newcomers, through no fault of their own, will amplify demand for housing and drive up home prices. CIBC CEO Victor Dodig recently expressed concern that increasing immigration levels without first increasing housing supply risks triggering Canada’s “largest social crisis” over the next decade.
OMG! The Star grabs a clue.
The new dollar numbers are big, but it’s still the same old story, a fight for funds and automotive glory that, in the past, has produced few long-term substantial benefits that economists have been able to measure. Will the $13 billion that Canadian governments are now showering on Volkswagen to set up a battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., produce a century of benefits as promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals?
A senior adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told MPs that he was the one who briefed Trudeau during the 2019 election campaign after Canada’s spy agency reportedly warned the Liberal campaign about a candidate working in cahoots with the Chinese regime.
Jeremy Broadhurst, who works in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), was asked about the Sept. 28, 2019, briefing as he testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) on April 25.
OTTAWA—The Liberals are dropping a plan to added hundreds of firearms to a list of banned weapons in Canada as part of their broader promise to tighten gun laws in Canada.
But they will try again to legislate a definition of what would constitute an illegal weapon in a move that is sure to reignite controversy around one of the most politically sensitive files on the government’s agenda.
The definition is expected to be part of a new package of amendments that could land within days as the legislative clock on the federal government’s latest effort to tighten gun laws — Bill C-21 — is running out.
Alberta Continues to Stand Against Justin Trudeau‘s Gun Control Push
Alberta is continuing its stand against PM Justin Trudeau’s gun control push by barring police and municipalities from participating and/or enforcing the gun controls without written permission from Alberta’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General Tyler Shandro.
In case you haven’t heard, the Trudeau government is heaving tax credits and other supports toward every “clean energy” project on the horizon, including clean electricity, hydrogen, vehicles, manufacturing, battery production, grid “modernization” and the list goes on.
The whole Green scam is an LPC slush fund.
This was a bad week for free speech in Canada.
It has become clear that “progressive” opinion is lining up behind censorship of what Canadians can and cannot say on the Internet, including criticism of politicians and bureaucrats.
According to a story on the Ottawa-insider news site, Blacklock’s Reporter, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault told a podcast affiliated with the Liberal Party that the government believes federal regulators should have the authority to temporarily block or even shut down websites that say hurtful things about politicians and public servants.
OTTAWA — Liberal party officials said Tuesday that recently reported claims that security agencies told them to drop MP Han Dong as a candidate before the 2019 election were not accurate.
Global News reported earlier this year that national security officials warned the party that Dong was part of a foreign interference network directed from Beijing. Dong, the current MP for Don Valley North in Toronto, left the Liberal caucus after the allegations were reported and has since launched a defamation suit against Global.
Conservatives hatred of journalism is damaging their brand
Conservatives get confused when they see a media attack on one politician as proof of partisan loyalty to another.
The first conservative to destroy his party through a hatred of journalists was, of course, Richard Nixon. The next was Donald Trump, who has delivered three defeats since his razor thin single victory, all the while ranting his denunciation of “fake news” media.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre appears to be genuine in his contempt for many Canadian journalists. Former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper always appeared more theatrical in his, given how close he was to journalists before he won power. This hatred is, of course, dangerous for democracy, but it is also damaging the Canadian Conservatives’ brand.
The message: there is trouble at CSIS, and if the government doesn’t wake up, it could leave Canada vulnerable to threats from hostile foreign interests – or, conceivably, from domestic terrorism
… The message sender(s) – one or more disgruntled, or genuinely alarmed, CSIS officers – were not whistleblowers in the customary sense. Their mission was not to expose malfeasance, corruption, or some ghastly mistake that the agency had made.
Their message was political, its delivery staged to embarrass the government without revealing any truly damaging information. It conveyed a sense of festering antipathy in the relationship between CSIS and the Trudeau Liberal government.
